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Simple Tools for Clarity, Understanding and Betterment

Simple Tools for Clarity, Understanding and Betterment provides useful tools for those who are wanting or needing to engage with and create desired, healthier, better, successful futures.

In the early part of the book a number of tools are presented to 'break through' or see beyond many accepted fixed beliefs that block the path to results, wellbeing and betterment.

The latter part of the book provides tools for directly engaging the future in quite literal, practical, useful and life-enriching terms. Examples are given of how strongly desired futures 'feed' into our present awareness, providing exceptionally insightful and useful information (via intuitions, gut feelings) with which to create said desired futures.
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It is a magnificent guide to help one think outside the box with the issues we experience in life. This book is small in size but big in ideas. It is a brilliant book full of intelligent humour for the thinking, open-minded person.

Stephen demonstrates incisive observations of human behaviour and traditions and shows how in casting aside old myths one is guided to understand and overcome difficult or interesting times in one's life." Robert Colquhoun, Barrister and Philosopher (Sydney, Australia)

* According to the research, factors such as smoking, obesity, poor diet, lack of exercise and hereditary issues account for only 1/4 to 1/3 the total cause for ill-health and premature death.

Social Determinants of Health

When considering the nature of employee health within organisations, it is worthwhile to expand the context to include as many factors as possible that may impinge, directly or indirectly on the quality of health.

In the 2003 World Health Organization’s report on social determinants of health, Dr Michael Marmot and Dr Richard Wilkinson reported that:

“Even in the most affluent countries, people who are less well off have substantially shorter life expectancies and more illnesses than the rich. Not only are these differences in health an important social injustice, they have also drawn scientific attention to some of the most powerful determinants of health standards in modern societies. They have led in particular to a growing understanding of the remarkable sensitivity of health to the social environment and to what have become known as the social determinants of health."1

The research into social determinants of health is sufficiently broad and rigorous to link social factors with corresponding levels of health and life expectancy.

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WAYVionics is an alternative reality impeller, a resource and motivational guide for those seeking to expand their sense of being into unknown and unthought-of possibilities. But this unlimited creative potential is also what makes WAYVionics so difficult to convey to those not yet attuned to the free-fall experience it offers.

The intrinsic flaw in trying to inform people of something they don’t yet know and cannot even imagine is overlooking the stranglehold their core-belief system has on them. No matter what marvelously intriguing alternatives WAYVionics may put before them, they inevitably filter and reconfigure them to conform to what they may add to their store of the filtered and reconfigured known, but not actually replace it with something so new and unique that what they already know becomes irrelevant.

There was a revolution in physics at the beginning of the last century, consisting of the discovery of quantum physics.The message of quantum physics is this: the world is not made of matter neither is it determined entirely by material causation that we sometimes call upward causation because it rises upward from the building blocks of matter–the elementary particles .There is a source of downward causation in the world.You can call this source consciousness if you like and think of it as the ground of all being.

To be sure, the mathematics of quantum physics is deterministic and based on the upward causation model above, but it predicts objects and their movements not as determined events (as in Newtonian physics) but as possibilities(for which the probabilities can be calculated enabling us to develop a very successful predictive science for large number of objects and/or events).And yet when we look at a quantum object, we don’t experience it as a bundle of possibilities, but as actual localized event much like a Newtonian particle.Moreover, quantum mathematics does not allow us to connect the upward causation-based deterministic theory with experimental data.How do the possibilities of the theory become actualities of experience simply by our looking at them?This is the mysterious “observer effect.”

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Small business entrepreneurs have a creative free spirit that is often denied large business employees and managers (who must be more attuned to, and aligned with the in-grained systems, culture and politics of large organisations).

Small business entrepreneurs often start out, as I did, to explore new ways of doing things, of doing things better, and with a strong desire of being their own boss (and for some, of having their "name up in lights"). It's all good - it's all about personal development, freedom, exploration, risk, rewards, stretching and growth.

But perhaps most of all, small business entrepreneurs enjoy testing their intuition, their 'gut-feel' for what will work.

If I had to identify one aspect of running one's own business that is most important it would be the unmatched buzz of testing and relying on our initiative and gut-feelings for how best to do it (running and developing the business, interacting with customers, managing and mentoring employees etc.).

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Finding our way home

Given current world circumstances (e.g. the 2008 global economic situation; recent and current controversies in the USA over the teaching of "Intelligent Design" and recent demonstrations against cartoons and books that are deemed blasphemous) perhaps it's timely that we gain a fuller perspective. It is quite evident there are conflicting views on what is "Truth." Is capitalism the best system?

Is Intelligent Design a valid alternative to the Theory of Evolution? Is it genuinely blasphemous to create an image of that which is deemed sacred? How can we see our way clear of the jungle of conflicting faiths and beliefs?

"Our current research concerns the antigen-driven somatic generation of antibody diversity. Results of companion studies on the origin of germline antibody diversity can be found in selected publication numbers 6,7,11-15."

Author, social ecologist and psychotherapist who founded Living for a Sustainable Earth. Werner Sattmann-Frese studied conventional medicine and body-oriented psychotherapy from 1977 until 1984. Since then he has been working as a psychotherapist mainly in private practice.

Dr Ervin Laszlo is a systems philosopher, integral theorist, and classical pianist. Ervin Laszlo has a PhD from the Sorbonne and is granted honorary PhD’s from Turku School of Economics (Finland 1989), The Saybrook Institute (San Francisco, 1989), The International Institute of Systems Research & Cybernetics (Canada, 1999), The University of Pécs (Hungary, 2001).

Quotes

"Life is not about controlling. It's not about getting. It's not about having. It's not about knowing. It's not even about being. Life is eternal, perpetual becoming, or it is nothing. Becoming is not a thing to be known or controlled. It is a magnificent, mysterious odyssey to be experienced."

"There is nothing more deadly than nirvana. At least your Christian concepts give you some twilight hopes of a stifling and boring paradise, where your individuality can at least express itself, and nirvana extends no such comfort. Instead it offers you the annihilation of your personality, in a bliss that destroys the integrity of your being. Run from such bliss!"

Jane Roberts
The Nature of Personal Reality

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Mark Twain

"(Einstein) was able to quite naturally identify himself with various functions of the universe. He was able to listen to the inner voice of matter. He was intuitively and emotionally led to his discoveries. He leaned against time, and felt it give and wobble."

Jane Roberts
Unknown Reality, Vol. 1 (Session 701, Page 188)

I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy

Physicist and Nobel Laureate, Max Born

The last of human freedoms (is) the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Viktor Frankl

"We have always goodly stock in us of that which we condemn: as only similars can be profitably contrasted, so only similar people quarrel, and the bitterest wars are over the slightest variations of purpose or belief."
Will Durant

"I can be smart when it's important, but most men don't like it."
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953).

I don’t think people get to be successful without ambition. And I don’t think people get to be successful unless they have very strong egos. But I don’t see either of those words, either ambition or ego, as pejorative words.

"Why prove to a man he is wrong? You can't win an argument, because if you lose, you lose it; and if you win, you lose it. You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior, you hurt his pride, insult his intelligence, his judgment, and his self-respect."

Dale Carnegie

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
Nikola Tesla

"It is my personal opinion that in the science of the future reality will neither be 'psychic' nor 'physical' but somehow both and somehow neither."

Wolfgang Pauli

we know that nonlocality and acausality must be found in any empirically adequate theory of nature
Victor Mansfield
Synchronicity, Science, and Soulmaking: Understanding Jungian Syncronicity Through Physics, Buddhism, and Philosphy

We know from quantum mechanics that our observations create the past, as demonstrated by the famous delayed-choice experiment. Again, this is established physics, not philosophy. So evolution is simply not an issue for me: it is entirely correct, but of course backward.

It took me decades to finally realize that this is not a joke, and that the universe is purely mental: that mind is fundamental; matter merely an illusion—and that this is physics, not philosophy (or religion).

"Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”

Henry David Thoreau

The only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality -- the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical -- as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously

Wolfgang Pauli

We now have scientific proof that the mind can heal the body.

This means that you have the innate ability to self-heal diseases, prevent life-threatening conditions, and supplement established drug and surgical procedures with mind body techniques that can improve your physiology, biochemistry, brain functioning, and genetic activity. Furthermore, these benefits have the potential to reduce individual health costs and the broader societal expenses of health care.

Dr Herbert Benson
The Relaxation Revolution

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

T.S.Elliott

The two most important days in your life are the day you were born ... and the day you find out why

Mark Twain

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoidance of danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

Helen Keller

It starts with a Dream
Add Faith and it becomes a Belief
Add Action and it becomes a Part of Life
Add Perseverance and it becomes a Goal in Sight
Add Patience and Time and it becomes a Dream Come True

Doe Zantamata

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

Max Planck
As quoted in The Observer (25 January 1931)

"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter."

"Our physicists and our astronomers are now bumping into data that is forcing them to see the cosmos as primarily conscious. Consciousness as the source of evolution rather than the product of evolution.

This has been creeping up in science for 50 years since quantum theory was first proposed and now we have 50 years of evidence that life is intelligent from its initial bacterial stages and that the universe is permeated by non-material energies which are actually causing the creation of the physical world."

Dr Elisabet Sahtouris

It is science's reductive perfectionism —seeking to reduce the unending fullness of life to a few component pieces— that dampens and diminishes our natural creativity and the expansive holistic solutions we now so urgently need.

"It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality"

Physicist, Nobel Laurette Eugene Wigner

Remarks on the Mind-Body Question, in Wheeler and Zurek, p.169

"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself."

Alan Alda

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds;

your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new great and wonderful world.

Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”

To me one thing that has emerged from my experience and from very rigorous analysis of that experience over several years, talking it over with others that I respect in neuroscience, and really trying to come up with an answer, is that consciousness outside of the brain is a fact. It’s an established fact. And of course, that was a hard place for me to get, coming from being a card-toting reductive materialist over decades. It was very difficult to get to knowing that consciousness, that there’s a soul of us that is not dependent on the brain.

No theory in the history of science has been more successful than quantum theory. It underlies our understanding of chemistry, atomic and subatomic physics, electronics and even biology.

Lee Smolin

Scientific American, 2004. p. 66

(visionaries and great leaders) moved out of the society that would have protected them, and into the dark forest, into the world of fire, of original experience. Original experience has not been interpreted for you, and so you’ve got to work out your life for yourself. Either you can take it or you can’t. You don’t have to go far off the interpreted path to find yourself in very difficult situations. The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience – that is the hero’s deed.

Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth, with Bill Moyers

"The data that negative mental states cause heart problems is just stupendous. The data is just as established as smoking, and the size of the effect is the same."

Dr. Charles Raison

Systems theory looks at the world in terms of the interrelatedness of all phenomena, and in this framework an integrated whole whose properties cannot be reduced to those of its parts is called a system.

Fritjof Capra

The Turning Point

the more you insist on doing things you're not good at, the more you forgo wealth.

Nothing is unannounced. If you are paying attention, stuff comes down the pike.First a little wave, then a medium wave, then the tsunami.

Terence McKenna

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.

We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."

Albert Einstein

''Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

Lord Jonathan Sacks

The best way to develop ideas is through interacting with your fellow managers... The chemistry among two or three people sitting down together can be incredible – and it's been a big part of my own success

Lee Iacocca

Iacocca, an autobiography

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock

Thomas Jefferson

The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?"

Albert Einstein

"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash."

Harriet Rubin

It is truer to say that heredity operates from the future backward into the past, than it is to say that it operates from the past into the present. Neither statement would be precisely correct in any case, because your present is a poised balance affected as much by the probable future as the probable past.

Jane Roberts (Seth)

The Unknown Reality, Vol. 1

Consciousness, to be fully free, had to be endowed with unpredictability. All That Is had to surprise himself, herself, itself, constantly, through freely granting itself its own freedom, or forever repeat itself.

Jane Roberts (Seth)

The Unknown Reality, Vol. 1

Your consciousness rides over lapses that you do not recognize ... your bodies blink off and on like lights. Their reality fluctuates, from your standpoint. For that matter, so does the physical universe.

Jane Roberts (Seth)

The Unknown Reality, Vol. 1

Unpredictability does not mean chaos. All order rises out of the creative elements of unpredictability ... Unpredictability assures uniqueness, and is the opposite of predetermined motion. The great saga of recognized physical activity arises from a vast unrecognized, unpredictable dimension in which probabilities are allowed full freedom

Jane Roberts (Seth)

The Unknown Reality, Vol. 1

The self, the individual, being its fulfilled self, would automatically function for the good of itself and the good of society. The individual's good, therefore, is the society's good, and represents spiritual and physical fulfillment. This presupposes however, an understanding of the inner self and an exploration into the unknown reality of the individual psyche.

Jane Roberts (Seth)
The Unknown Reality, Vol. 1

We know now, however, that it is Einstein's theory that ultimately fails. On extremely fine scales, space-time, and thus reality itself, becomes grainy and discontinuous, like a badly overmagnified newspaper photograph. The equations of general relativity simply can't handle such a situation, where the laws of cause and effect break down and particles jump from point A to point B without going through the space in between.

J. MADELEINE NASH

Nothing is unannounced. If you are paying attention, stuff comes down the pike. First a little wave, then a medium wave, then the tsunami.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.

"I do not want to belong to any organization of a spiritual kind, please understand this ... I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.

If an organization be created for this purpose, it becomes a crutch, a weakness, a bondage, and must cripple the individual, and prevent him from growing, from establishing his uniqueness, which lies in the discovery for himself of that absolute, unconditioned Truth. "

Krishnamurti

Dissolution Speech

There is no event upon the face of the earth in which each of you has not played some part, however minute, because of the nature of your thoughts, beliefs, and expectations. There is no public act in which you are not in that same manner involved. You are intimately connected with _all_ of the historic events of your time. To some extent you participated in putting a man on the moon, whether or not you had any connection at all with the physical occurance itself.

Jane Roberts (Seth)

The Individual and the nature of mass events

The world of the imagination is indeed your contact with your own source. Its characteristics are the closest to those in Framework 2 that you can presently encounter.

Your experience of history, of the days of your life, is invisibly formed by those ideas that exist in the imagination only, and then are projected upon the physical world.

Jane Roberts (Seth)

The Individual and the nature of mass events

"If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others, and you will find your answer."

Jane Roberts (Seth)

You have a universe formed with a reason, or a universe formed without a reason. And in a universe of reason, there are no victims. Everything has a reason, or nothing has a reason.

So—choose your side.

Jane Roberts (Seth)

The Nature of Personal Reality

The Bible is a profoundly human, deeply flawed, tribal history that has created as much pain as blessing in our world.

Bishop John Shelby Spong

"The Word of God"

Make an island of yourself, make yourself a refuge; there is no other refuge

Siddartha Gautama, the Buddga

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star

Frederick Nietzsche

Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.

Native American saying

When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.

Cree Prophecy

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Cherokee Expression

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.

"I don't much care where -- ", said Alice.

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, 1861

When the voice and vision on the inside becomes more profound, and more clear and loud than the opinions on the outside, you've mastered your life

Dr John Demartini

You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. You have to trust that somehow the dots will connect in the future.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Mark Twain

“Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.” – Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”

Victor Hugo

“Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.”

Peter Drucker

“The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.”

Thomas Watson, (Founder of IBM)

“Now that we have met with paradox we have some hope of making progress.”

Niels Bohr

“There is only one thing stronger than all the armies of the world: and that is an idea whose time has come.”

Victor Hugo

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct arising from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”

Carl Jung

“Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.”

Alfred North Whitehead

"The individual is stronger than any system, and the individual must always come first ...Your vitality comes first. You form systems ... the systems must not be allowed to rule you."

Jane Roberts

Psychic Politics

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

Calvin Coolidge

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader

John Quincy Adams

"Be courageous! ... Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward"

Thomas Alva Edison

All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

J. Krishnamurti

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

J. Krishnamurti

It behooves those who seek truth to study the abstract features of the truths of as many disciplines as possible, in order to determine which of the ideas of each of them correspond and which do not, with the notion that those ideas that do recur in a varied range of domains of knowledge are more likely to be true than those that don’t. Thus the seemingly invariant truths are the ones that should be pursued further, as significant investigations toward our future understanding of the real world.

Dr Mendel Sachs

Bridging Science and Spirit (Norman Friedman).

“Big shots are little shots who kept shooting.”

Christopher Morley

"Each person enfolds something of the spirit of the other in his consciousness."

David Bohm

"In what is known as a “Renninger type experiment,” the wave function is collapsed simply by a human mind seeing nothing. No irreversible act of amplification involving the photon has taken place—yet the decision is irreversibly made. The universe is entirely mental."

"Mystics have spoken to us through the ages in terms of paradox. Is it possible that we are beginning to see a meeting ground between science and religion? When we are able to say that a human being is both mortal and eternal at the same time, and light is both a wave and a particle at the same time, we have begun to speak the same language."

M. Scott Peck

"I have always believed, andI still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value"

Hermann Hesse

"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."

Samuel Smiles

"There is joy in work ... There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

Henry Ford

"It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself."

R.J. Baughan

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

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"Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid." (Earl Nightingale)

Marie Curie (and Earl Nightingale)

"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it..."

J. Krishnamurti

"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall ... Freedom and slavery are mental states."

Mohandas Gandhi

"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom."

Marilyn Ferguson

"The will is never free—it is always attached to an object, a purpose."

Joyce Cary

Come to the edge, He said.They said, We are afraid.Come to the edge, He said.They came.He pushed them ... and they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

"You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves."

Hermann Hesse

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face ... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it ... You must make youself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."

Orison Swett Marden

"The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act."

Orison Swett Marden

"This is the true joy of life—the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are through to the scrap-heap."

George Bernard Shaw

"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triump of life is expressed by creation."

Henri Bergson

"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing."

William Butler Yeats

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of Wisdom"

Thomas Jefferson

"Your precognitive awareness of your probable futures helps you to make choices that will lead to that reality"

Jane Roberts

Unknown Reality: A Seth Book, Vol. 1

Bell proves conclusively that the world behind (physical) phenomena must be non-local. Bell does not merely suggest or hint that reality is non-local, he actually proves it.

Nick Herbert
Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics

If God is infinite,what can be separate?

Sir John Templeton

The core of individuality, then, is the individual's expectations, for he will truly get what he wants, individually and collectively. If a man wants to change his fate, desire is not enough, but expectation is.

Desire may grow into expectation, but alone it is not enough. Expectation is actually the main trigger that switches inner data into the realm of physical construction. Without it, no physical construction results.

Jane Roberts

The Early Sessions, Book 2

Your attitudes toward what is possible determines what is possible for you in very definite terms. Your attitudes create possibilities and impossibilities. Your attitude toward money creates your bank account. These laws apply to all. What you expect you create, and that is the beginning and end of it, whether you are speaking of psychic matters or physical matters.

Jane Roberts

"The fetus grows into the adult, not because it is programmed from the past, but because it is to some extent precognitively aware of its probabilities, and from the "future" then imprints this information into the past structure.

"It is the body's own precognition that allows the child to develop, to speak and walk and grow."

"From your platform of poised now-experience, you alter both the past and the future, and that alteration, that change, that action, cause your point of immediate sense life."

Jane Roberts

The Unknown Reality

The actual operation of intelligence is beyond the possibility of being determined or conditioned by factors that can be included in any knowable law ...

Intelligence is thus not deducible or explainable on the basis of any branch of knowledge (e.g. physics or biology). Its origin is deeper and more inward than any knowable order that could describe it.

David Bohm

Wholeness and the Implicate Order

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, toknow good and evil

In all cases, the clues to your emotional experience and behavior lie in your systems of belief, some more evident to you than others, but ALL available to you consciously.

Jane Roberts

The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book

... we believe quantum theory because of its enormous experimental success: it really has been the most successful physical theory in history

[David Deutsch, University of Oxford]

Paul Davies, J.R. Brown

The Ghost in the Atom

The mind goes insane without the guidance of the heart

Marianne Williamson

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

You must not try to be perfect.

Your ideas of perfection mean a state of fulfillment beyond which there is no future growth, and no such state exists.

Jane Roberts

The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book

Quantum theory works perfectly; no prediction of the theory has ever been shown in error.

It is the theory basic to all physics, and thus to all science.

One third of our economy depends on products developed with it. For all practical purposes, we can be completely satisfied with it.

Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness

There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration.

That country is richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence ... over the lives of others.

John Ruskin

... studies we have done show that the distribution of matter is fractal, just like a tree or a cloud.

Our tests show that the Universe never becomes homogeneous in the available galaxy samples. It remains hierarchically clustered. It remains fractal.

Francesco Sylos Labini

In the beginning there were only probabilities.

The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers turned up several billion years later.

The universe exists because we are aware of it.

Professor Martin ReesProfessor of Cosmology and AstrophysicsMaster of Trinity CollegeUniversity of Cambridge

Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness

Whatever reality may be, it must be non-local. Since (Clauser’s) experimental verification of Bell’s theorem, we know that any correct model of reality has to incorporate explicit non-local connections. No local reality can explain the type of world we live in.

Nick Herbert

Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics

Everything that has already happened is particles, everything in the future is waves. [Sir Lawrence Bragg]

Ronald W. Clark

Einstein, The Life and Times {Quoting Sir Lawrence Bragg, "The advancing sieve of time," May 30, 1970}

The advancing sieve of time coagulates waves into particles at the moment 'now.' [Sir Lawrence Bragg]

The Pythagoreans) .. were aware that the symbols of mythology and the symbols of mathematical science were different aspects of the same, indivisible Reality.

They did not live in a ‘divided house of faith and reason’; the two were interlocking, like ground plan and elevation of an architect’s drawing.

It is a state of mind very difficult for twentieth-century man to imagine—or even to believe that it could ever have existed.

Arthur Koestler

The Sleepwalkers

Relationships begin “in here,” with our ability to love ourselves, to know ourselves, to be ourselves.

Deepak Chopra

Unconditional Life

Original experience has not been interpreted for you ... and you don’t have to go far off the interpreted path to find yourself in difficult situations.

The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people ... that is the hero’s deed.

Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth

... the truly exceptional men and women of this or any other age —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Charles Darwin, George Elliot, the Bronte sisters, Marie Curie, Johann Sebastiann Bach, Albert Einstein— displayed the most dogged single-mindedness and self-centredness in their pursuit of excellence.

Prof. Anthony Clare

“Success,” Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, News Ltd, February 20, 2000

... as youths ... (Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, Hans Christian Anderson, Niels Bohr, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Humphrey Davy, Albert Einstein) all had one characteristic in common; each was an individualist, saw no need to explain himself and was thus listed among the odd men out.

Ronald W Clark

Edison. The Man Who Made The Future

There is one hundred percent diversity and one hundred percent unity, both performing their work at the same time. That is the nature of the work of creation—this is true reality. To us, one seems real and the other unreal. The reality is that both are real at the same time

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

[Source: Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing]

immediate, unmediated (nonlocal) connections are present not only in rare and exotic circumstances, but underlie all the events of everyday life. Non-local connections are ubiquitous because reality itself is non-local.

Nick Herbert
Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics

there’s no consistent evolutionary theory, nor is there any evidence, that suggests that genetic determinants explain any of the mortality differences found between populations.

"Don't aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue ... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself."

Victor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

Our error is not the outer directed confrontative mind itself, but overemphasizing it

Carla Needleman

[Source: Dawn Markova]

...various successive living forms unfold creatively. Later members are not completely derivable from what came earlier, through a process in which effect arises out of cause (though in some approximation such a causal process may explain certain limited aspects of the sequence.

David Bohm

Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Life on the basis of detachment! This is a complete distortion of Indian philosophy. It has not only destroyed the path of realization but led the seekers of Truth continuously astray. Indeed it has left them without the possibility of ever finding the goal.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

[Source: Deepak Chopra]

(The Pythagoreans) .. were aware that the symbols of mythology and the symbols of mathematical science were different aspects of the same, indivisible Reality. They did not live in a ‘divided house of faith and reason’; the two were interlocking, like ground plan and elevation of an architect’s drawing. It is a state of mind very difficult for twentieth-century man to imagine—or even to believe that it could ever have existed.

Arthur Koestler

The Sleepwalkers

A mother who says to her child, “I gave up my life for you,” is speaking nonsense. In basic terms such a mother believes, no matter what she says, that she did not have that much to give up, and the “giving up” gave her a life that she wanted. A child who says, "I gave up my life for my parents and devoted myself to their care," means "I was afraid to live my own life, and afraid to let them live theirs."

Jane Roberts

The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book

In every tradition, not just the Indian, the grip of detachment and renunciation has had its withering effect.

Deepak Chopra

Quantum Healing

... Einstein has reported that his profound generalization connecting space and time occurred to him while he was sick in bed. Descartes is said to have made his discoveries while lying in bed in the morning and both Cannon and Poincaré report having got bright ideas when lying in bed unable to sleep ... It is said that James Bradley, the great engineer, when up against a difficult problem, would go to bed for several days till it was solved.

Arthur Koestler

The Act of Creation

The introspective reports of artists and scientists on their sources of inspiration and methods of work often display the same contradiction. “Saturate yourself through and through with your subject... and wait” was Lloyd Morgan’s advice.

Arthur Koestler

The Act of Creation

[Francis Crick]: It’s well documented that the best way to have ideas is first of all to immerse yourself in a subject for longish periods—like months or more—in which you study intensely, and then step away and do something else—go for a holiday, go out dancing, or something like that. Very often ideas come in this sort of incubation period.

Eugene B. Griessman

The Achievement Factors

The fetus grows into an adult, not because it is programmed from the past, but because it is to some extent precognitively aware of its probabilities ... It is truer to say that hereditary operates from the future backward into the past, than it is to say that it operates from the past into the present. Neither statement would be precisely correct in any case, because your present is a poised balance affected as much by the probable future as the probable past.

Jane Roberts

The Unknown Reality

I know that my spirit is waiting out there in front of me on one of any number of a thousand paths, and that it's up to me to choose that one path ... and to step out on it brightly, without hesitation, to pursue the I, which is the greatest one I can possibly be. To be spirit-full, that is, spiritual. That is to be in touch with my soul.

Michael E. Gerber

The E-Myth

There is one hundred percent diversity and one hundred percent unity, both performing their work at the same time. That is the nature of the work of creation—this is true reality. To us, one seems real and the other unreal. The reality is that both are real at the same time.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

[Source: Deepak Chopra]

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.

William Hutchinson Murray

The Scottish Himalayan Expedition [Goethe]

Over the years I have learned that reality, divinity, unity, or the absolute -whatever term you choose to describe the sacred mystery- cannot be limited either to the rationality and objectivity of science nor to the unity and subjectivity of spiritual seekers.

Prof. Victor Mansfield

Head and Heart [Source: WorldTrade.com]

(Einstein's method) 'was essentially aesthetic and intuitive ... Except for the fact that he was the greatest physicist since Newton, one might almost say that he was not so much a scientist as an artist of science.'[Banest Hoffmann, Einstein's assistant]

Ronald W. Clark

Einstein, The Life and Times

“the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.

Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter... we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.”

One benefit of switching humanity to a correct perception of the world is the resulting joy of discovering the mental nature of the universe. We have no idea what this mental nature implies, but — the great thing is — it is true. Beyond the acquisition of this perception, physics can no longer help. You may descend into solipsism, expand to deism, or something else if you can justify it — just don’t ask physics for help.

Whatever reality may be, it must be non-local. Since (Clauser’s) experimental verification of Bell’s theorem, we know that any correct model of reality has to incorporate explicit non-local connections. No local reality can explain the type of world we live in.

Nick Herbert

Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics

“Drugs are not always necessary.Belief in recovery always is.”

Norman Cousins

-- Anatomy of an illness

...that space is continuous is, I believe, wrong. Because we get these infinities and other difficulties ...I rather suspect that the simple ideas of geometry extended down into infinitely small space is wrong.